4th's C++ tutorials: Multithreading 2 -mutexes-

[vaualbus]

what version of sfml do you use??

[Mr4thdimention]

@vaualbus The most recent non-beta version. I believe the number was 1.6 can't remember perfectly but unless you want to use sfml for other things, I would recommend looking into boost::thread (or std::thread if you have a C++0X fully supporting compiler).

[1dayitwillmake]

Good video btw

[1dayitwillmake]

Howcome you're not using Boost. It is std::thread of C++0X

[Mr4thdimention]

@1dayitwillmake Yes I'm aware, at the time of the video I am not entirely sure what led me to do sfml except that I had been using it recently. I also wanted to showcase the use of a library, even if I didn't explain it. Anyway it may have been better if I used boost, and I might do another series on boost and make a video for the multithreading there.

[iddn]

That's NOT what 'volatile' does. All it does is force the compiler to not cache the value in registers and read the value from memory each time it's accessed. Your counter++ problem could have been solved with atomic operations, mutexes are overkill for it.

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